Joe Johnston’s feud with Jeff Davis spelled disaster. Early in 1864, Federal troops spread along the Western theater prepared to merge into one huge fighting force designed to quash the rebellious South once and for all. But the...

Teddy Roosevelt’s Rebel roots I enjoyed Ron Soodalter’s piece “Oh Shenandoah, you roiling raider!” in the March 2010 issue. The article briefly mentions James D. Bulloch’s role in procuring the CSS Shenandoah for the Confederate...

The knock came around noon on a sunny spring day, April 17, 1865. When James Bennett and his wife Nancy opened their door, they saw Union Major General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston, along with their staffs and...

John Marshall Branum knew about abolition and slavery in the South from an early age. His parents were both Swedenborgian, members of a Christian sect founded in the 18th century that followed the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a...

The Confederacy’s Western Theater fighters get little attention compared to their eastern counterparts The army of Tennessee has always lived in the shadow of the Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, it labored under a succession...

A Confederate Surgeon kept his faith in his cause during the war’s last days. Dr. Francis Marion Robertson was a prominent figure in Charleston, S.C., when the Civil War began. A politically active Whig and friend of Henry Clay,...

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard almost took command of the Army of Tennessee in 1864. Almost. “Atlanta gone,” Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote in her diary in early September 1864. “Well—that agony is over.” With that blunt statement,...

Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign Earl J. Hess, University of North Carolina Press In the summer of 1864, two great armies engaged in a deadly, red-dirt minuet in the hills of northern Georgia....

Pfc. Dan Bullock died at age 15 in 1969 and efforts to recognize the young African-American Marine continue and are highlighted in this Military Times documentary. (Rodney Bryant and Daniel Woolfolk/Military Times)...

Civil War Times Editor Dana Shoaf shares the story of Confederate soldier Benjamin Mell, wounded at the Battle of South Mountain and buried in Maryland....

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